What now reads as a symmetrical composition along its southern front was not always so: the house originally presented three bays to the world, with chimney stacks rising from the gable ends, before being extended at both ends by single-bay, two-storey gabled additions that introduced their own chimney stacks. The result is a building that grew incrementally, each phase leaving its mark.

The house dates in appearance to the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century, a period when modest gentry and prosperous farming families across Munster were building or rebuilding in a plain vernacular Georgian manner, favouring symmetry, economy of ornament, and solid rubble construction. The traces of weatherslating visible on the southern elevation are worth noting: weatherslating, the practice of hanging overlapping slates on an exposed wall face to keep out driven rain, is a practical response to the wet Cork climate and a reminder that the building's outer skin was as much about survival as appearance. A modern door opening cut into the western side speaks to the house's continued use and adaptation over time, layering the functional present over the architectural past.